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a composition in verse in which a person expresses a strong feeling of love or respect for someone or something
This poem is titled, "An Ode to My Mother."
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Recent Examples of ode
Finally making it to the contest stage at the fourth time of asking, The Voice winner, therefore, is certainly qualified to sing an ode to keeping faith in your dreams.
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Jon O'Brien, Vulture, 11 May 2026
The Mississippi Comeback Burger is our ode to some of the tangy, punchy flavors of the Magnolia State—both comeback sauce and the bite of pepperoncini, a key part of Mississippi Pot Roast.
—Kimberly Holland, Southern Living, 10 May 2026
One even has a Princess Donut tattoo, an ode to Dinniman’s feline diva character.
—Clare Mulroy, USA Today, 9 May 2026
And nothing says legendary quite like an ode to the late, great Whitney Houston.
—Audrey Noble, Vogue, 9 May 2026
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Jon O'Brien, Vulture, 11 May 2026
The Mississippi Comeback Burger is our ode to some of the tangy, punchy flavors of the Magnolia State—both comeback sauce and the bite of pepperoncini, a key part of Mississippi Pot Roast.
—Kimberly Holland, Southern Living, 10 May 2026
One even has a Princess Donut tattoo, an ode to Dinniman’s feline diva character.
—Clare Mulroy, USA Today, 9 May 2026
And nothing says legendary quite like an ode to the late, great Whitney Houston.
—Audrey Noble, Vogue, 9 May 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for ode
Noun
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The literary début of the Auto-Beatnik, a machine that could compose five thousand poems in an hour or so, caught the attention of Time, Life, and the Times.—
Jill Lepore,
New Yorker,
18 May 2026
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Puskin was sent into exile by Tsar Alexander I after his poem Ode to Liberty was found among the possessions of the rebels of the Decemberist uprising.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
18 May 2026
Noun
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My expertise, for example, is in the African American sonnet tradition.—
Jay Caspian Kang,
New Yorker,
12 May 2026
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By simply turning just one strip, the sonnet is altered.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
27 Apr. 2026
Noun
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The Pulitzer Prize-winning rapper is known for his introspective lyrics that tackle political and social themes.—
Melina Khan,
USA Today,
16 May 2026
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Rob turtled inside the plastic covering while viewers heard a soundtrack of tritely soulful country lyrics about being a house of cards that’s about to break.—
Anna Peele,
Vanity Fair,
14 May 2026
Noun
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Apologies for the subtle rhyme, but here's your reminder to not take things too seriously.—
Sam Woodward,
USA Today,
15 May 2026
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Later, a long close-up of a shattered glass of milk works neither as visual rhyme with the snowy setting nor dramatic insight.—
Sheri Linden,
HollywoodReporter,
14 May 2026
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In the work, a diverse cast of women, one after another, hold a single note as a lament for the dead.—
Harrison Jacobs,
ARTnews.com,
12 May 2026
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Warnings, laments, and odes to renewal were expressed pictorially as dying days under bleeding heavens, belching volcanoes, proud icebergs, lavish rainbows amid spangling, mist-suffusing sunlight and dawns of peace and hope.—
Sebastian Smee,
New Yorker,
4 May 2026
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Equal parts tragic and hilarious, Springfield resonates with the voice of a writer well studied in the Russian tradition of the grand epic.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
18 May 2026
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Pete Hammond reported at the time that Drive clocked an epic near 15-minute standing ovation.—
Anthony D'Alessandro,
Deadline,
18 May 2026
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The epitome of that tradition is Choral Evensong, an evening service of hymns, psalms and prayers laid out by Archbishop Thomas Cranmer, the first Protestant archbishop of the Church of England, in 1549.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
5 Apr. 2026
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After all, audiences may be captivated by the psalm singing itself, but then can also find more things that capture their imagination in the observational doc.—
Georg Szalai,
HollywoodReporter,
27 Feb. 2026
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On the last Unusual Tuesday of April, Zabaglio performed soft electric-indie ballads to a roar of applause as the first act of the night.—
Christopher Buchanan,
Los Angeles Times,
18 May 2026
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This is like Céline Dion and Bon Jovi made a power ballad together.—
Charlie Harding,
Vulture,
15 May 2026
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“Ode.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ode. Accessed 20 May. 2026.
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